Faster, faster, faster, oh yeah... More Mhz... Give it to me baby!! We have broke the 50Mhz barrier!

[FuZion]

Ok ok, it' s not gonna quite be the thread you were expecting.

I've been kinda low profile lately, just clickin in, readin up then clickin out again so now it's a moment to express myself regarding how fast we want our new Amigas.

Hands up who are on a Classic Amiga... Come on, not Amithlon, AmigaOne or whatever, Classic, as in original chipsets.

Now tell me, what processors do you have? I'm a Blizzard 1260/50 man. Some have PPC @ 160Mhz, some of you are on 68030's... Right?

Now... Sit back a moment... Look at your screens, look through your drawers (Not folders) &, without running any software, look at some of the things your Amiga can do on this power.

Don't rush... ... ...

OK, now back you all come. Tell me, honestly, how many of you agree that these computers are just too damn efficient?

Pick up any other computer (PC, Mac, Linux) at the same kind of power & tell me what they would do on a similar spec please. Certainly not what these are doing right? Or at least not as efficiently.

Now I know we're not going to sit back & say, we don't need power because our Amiga's run too damn good at 50-200Mhz are we? No.

But! What we can be certain about (& may I be as bold to say, with some degree of confidence too) is that this OS, this "too damn efficient" OS, genuinely has the potential to perform quite some feats even on an outdated 600Mhz G3 doesn't it? I believe the people behind the hardware & software are going to impress us.

Summary: What am I saying?

For those people who keep saying:

- Are we gonna get 1Ghz+?
- When can we expect dual processor support?
- We need these new 20 TillaHertz processors because this & that are out of date
- Blah blah...

Please, chill a little. We of all people should know by now that the numbers attached to your processor are not THAT important. They help, but it is not mandatory that they are as high as possible. Especially when AmigaOS is the OS in question.

Right, that's off my chest, I'm off to surf, play Quake online, check my credit card statement, chat with my MSN buddies, burn some CDs, check some internet radio, run UAE (Yeah yeah, slowly ;-)), process some words & render another PacMan image on Cinema4D (www.deceptiveaudio.co.uk) before catching a little shut eye & all on my A1200 @ 50Mhz with 48mb of RAM:

Hope I didn't bore you too much :-P

[FuZion]

I get the impression that you peeps dont want to embrace the future of amiga...

@ Samuar

No no no.. Not at all my friend.

I am sitting here with my AmigaOne-XE just looking at me (Probably thinking I'm a bit crazy)

My classic Amiga with it's B1260/50 is pretty nifty, especially with his Mediator & Voodoo 3 3000 inside ;-). I'm running a resolution of 1152x864 @ 24bits here & it's just loverly. All zippy & smooth. Play Quake in a window while surfing? Why not eh!?

My main point is that ^ The Amiga OS is truly an engineering master piece &, even in it's chimera like state, runs like a dream. Check? Check!

OS4 running on an AmigaOne @ 600Mhz is (I mean it) also going to be a masterpiece.

We do not NEED our new processors to be breaking the 1.x Ghz barrier with optional dual processor capability. It would be nice though.
What we need is to see what it can do on the specs it has to work with.

Yes, I DO want to embrace the Amiga of the future (My arms are open & waiting) but all the talk of: 'more, More, MORE' sounds a bit premature to me. We should not write off our new hardware before we see it running OS4. It might just fool us into thinking we are already at 1.x Ghz on a "mere" 600Mhz.

PS. We won't even have to tamper with our benchmarks like a certain type of fruit that shall remain unnamed :-D

[FuZion]

PS... Did anyone look at my Pacman render I mentioned?

www.deceptiveaudio.co.uk :-P

"Made on Amiga" I think they say ;-)

[FuZion]

Granted, Quake isn't too hot on a B1260/50 using AGA. Which is where the GFX card comes in, add a sound card & you gain a few frames still. Why? Because these cards are handling some of the work for the processor.

Buuuuuut... ... ... Wait for it... ... ...

It's still the 50Mhz processor underneath isn't it? Not a big numbered thing. We will add these GFX & sound cards to our AmigaOnes too won't we? But again, DO we need those BIG number processors so urgently? 50Mhz does fine with extra cards joining in the fun. Can't the G3? Or does it need more beef?

I was hoping this thread didn't stray too far off track. In my first post I referred to the processor frequency & how I don't think we need to stress over the 'mini' speed of the A1. Not the fact that AGA slows things down & chip ram causes a few grey hairs. These won't be a problem for the future of Amiga.


10 If OS4=>OS3.9_efficiency Then Mhz=Not_Too_Important
20 Print Mhz
30 Goto 10 : REM Remember that!